University Communications Acclaimed Violinist Kennedy To Perform at Emory April 4 WHO: Kennedy, violinist, accompanied by the Bamberg Symphony Chamber Orchestra WHAT: Classical music concert, part of the Candler Series at Glenn WHEN: 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 4 WHERE: Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd., Emory. COST: $17-25. For information or to order tickets, call 404-727-5050 or send e-mail to boxoffice@emory.edu. To see a map of campus, go on-line to www.emory.edu/MAP/. Violin virtuoso Kennedy (Nigel Kennedy performs under his surname) will tour the United States in March and April with Germany's Bamberg Symphony Chamber Orchestra with Pieter Daniel conducting, in support of the U.S. release of his new EMI Classics recording, "Classic Kennedy." Released in the United Kingdom in fall 1999, the recording-featuring the violinist in short showpieces that he says each achieve "three and a half minutes of perfection," --shot to the top of the classical charts. His Emory program will include selections from the new album, along with J.S. Bach's "Concerto for Solo Violin in A minor" and Beethoven's "Violin Concerto in D Major." "Classic Kennedy" represents a whole range of styles and composers, from Bach and Handel to Massenet and Satie, alongside Joni Mitchell and Kennedy himself. "I wanted to make a recording of small, perfect works," Kennedy says. "The maxim 'quality over quantity' is so right-a small piece of music can be a masterpiece." The new album reunites the violinist with the English Chamber Orchestra which he directs from the bow, as he did on their 1989 recording of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" -a landmark in classical recording that went as high as number three on the U.K. pop charts and went on to sell more than a million copies-one of the best-selling classical recordings of all time. A major EMI Classics star since the beginning of his career as a child prodigy and the most famous protege of the late Yehudi Menuhin, Kennedy has built a multi-award-winning catalogue of recordings that includes the great concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. As one of the most successful classical performers of his time, Kennedy's genre-defying music helped him achieve a level of fame typically reserved for pop stars, according to The All Music Guide. A native of Brighton, England, he studied music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at Juilliard. Kennedy collaborated not only with the more traditional likes of Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Andre Previn, but also with pop figures Paul McCartney and Kate Bush. In 1992, neck surgery forced Kennedy to retire for several years, but he resurfaced with 1996's "Kafka," that included his own compositions for the first time, and broadened his scope to include elements of Celtic, rock and jazz. The Jimi Hendrix tribute "The Kennedy Experience" followed in 1999. Return to Archived Public Events Releases |
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